Eugene Kosminsky

{{Short description|Soviet historian and medievalist (1886–1959)}}

{{family name hatnote|Alekseyevich|Kosminsky|lang=Eastern Slavic}}

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Order of Lenin (1945, 1954)}}

Eugene Alekseyevich Kosminsky ({{langx|ru|Евгений Алексеевич Косминский}}; November 2, 1886 – July 24, 1959) was a Soviet historian and medievalist, Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union (since 1946).{{Cite web|url=https://arran.ru/?q=ru/exposition12_1|title=Косминский Евгений Алексеевич (1886, Варшава, Российская Империя - 1959, Москва) – историк - медиевист; академик АН СССР (1946) | Архивы Российской академии наук|website=arran.ru}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.ras.ru/win/db/show_per.asp?P=.id-50829.ln-ru.dl-.pr-inf.uk-0|title=Косминский Е.А. - Общая информация|website=www.ras.ru}} He was a professor at the Lomonosov Moscow State University (since 1919), first Head of the Department of History of the Middle Ages at MSU Faculty of History from 1934 to 1949.https://bigenc.ru/world_history/text/2101182

Laureate of the 1942 Stalin Prize.{{cite web | url=http://library.ruslan.cc/authors/%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BC%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9-%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B9-%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151227204220/http://library.ruslan.cc/authors/%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BC%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9-%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B9-%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87/ | archive-date=2015-12-27 | title=Косминский Евгений Алексеевич }}

Biography

His father was a teacher. Eugene A. Kosminsky enrolled at the University of Warsaw. Then he studied at the University of Moscow under Professors Matvei Lyubavsky, Dmitry Petrushevsky and Robert Wipper. Kosminsky graduated in 1910.{{Cite web|url=http://letopis.msu.ru/peoples/1273|title=Косминский Евгений Алексеевич | Летопись Московского университета|website=letopis.msu.ru}}{{cite web|url=https://vtoraya-literatura.com/pdf/valensky_akademik_kosminsky_i_interpretatsiya_istorii_v_sovetskoj_skole_1954_text.pdf|title=Академик Е. А. Косминский и вопросы интерпретации истории Средних веков в советской школе|publisher=Institute for the Study of the History and Culture of the USSR|via=vtoraya-literatura.com}}

From 1919 he was a professor at the Moscow State University.{{Cite journal|url=https://library.by/portalus/modules/biographies/readme.php?subaction=showfull&id=1484603493&archive=&start_from=&ucat=&|title=ЕВГЕНИЙ АЛЕКСЕЕВИЧ КОСМИНСКИЙ (БИОГРАФИИ ЗНАМЕНИТЫХ ЛЮДЕЙ)|first=Library BY|last=Е. В. Гутнова|date=November 12, 2017|journal=Library.BY}} From 1934 to 1949, Kosminsky headed the Department of History of the Middle Ages.{{Cite journal|url=https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/ot-gruppy-k-sektoru-neizvestnye-stranitsy-sovetskogo-vizantinovedeniya-k-publikatsii-pisem-e-a-kosminskogo-z-v-udaltsovoy-1|title=От группы к сектору: неизвестные страницы советского византиноведения (к публикации писем Е. А. Косминского З. В. Удальцовой)|first=Сашанов Владимир|last=Владимирович|date=June 12, 2015|journal=Magistra Vitae: электронный журнал по историческим наукам и археологии|volume=24 |issue=379|pages=210–214|via=cyberleninka.ru}} (During the war, A. I. Neusykhin was in his place.{{Cite web|url=https://istmat.org/node/33516|title=Неусыхин Александр Иосифович | Проект «Исторические Материалы»|website=istmat.org}}) He was succeeded by Sergei Skazkin.http://ihst.ru/files/pdfs/2017_ws_ok.pdf

From 1926 to 1935, he also served as Professor of the Institute of Red Professors. In 1936, he received the title of Doctor Nauk. Correspondent Member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union since 1939.{{Cite web|url=https://cheloveknauka.com/evgeniy-alekseevich-kosminskiy-i-sovetskaya-istoricheskaya-nauka-1920-1950-h-gg|title=Евгений Алексеевич Косминский и советская историческая наука 1920-1950-х гг.|first=Антонина Владимировна|last=Шарова|date=November 12, 1994|via=cheloveknauka.com}}

Evgeniya Gutnova was his student.

Alexander Kazhdan highly appreciated him.